A beginner’s guide to augmented reality with Unity

October 23, 2018by Camila Kohles

The Wikitude Academy has been successfully supporting students, professors, and academic institutions since 2012. In short, this awesome initiative has been giving free access to the full feature set of the Wikitude SDK EDU to eligible applicants all around the globe.

Due to the success of the program and popular demand, the Wikitude Academy has now partnered up with award-winning international professor & best selling author Dr. Penny de Byl to offer online augmented reality courses.

If you are a mobile app creator, game designers/developer or an AR/Unity enthusiast looking to expand your skill set, this course is for you. Presenting:

Hosted on the online learning platform Udemy and designed for AR beginners, the course ranges from examining AR’s earliest origins to understanding the mashup of computerized environments with the real world. The topics covered in the course include:

Projecting Virtual Objects over live camera feed

2D Image Recognition

3D Object and Scene Recognition

3D Scene Recognition

QR and Barcode Detection

Image Tracking, and

Placing virtual interactable objects and animations into a real scene

Like what you see? Then we suggest you act fast. For a limited time, until Oct 31 2018, the course price has been dramatically reduced.

With a small investment, enrolled students have full lifetime access to 53 lectures, 10.5 hours of on-demand video, 6 articles, 28 downloadable resources, certificate of completion and more:

All students enrolled in this course are entitled to a free Wikitude SDK EDU license.

Enroll now and learn how to create your own AR app from scratch with Unity and Wikitude.

“Dr. Penny introduces augmented reality techniques using her internationally acclaimed holistic teaching style and expertise from over 25 years of teaching, research and work in games and computer graphics. Throughout the course, you will follow along with hands-on workshops designed to teach you the fundamental techniques used for designing and developing augmented reality mobile applications.”